| Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - 1872 - 512 页
...imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance hut slavery : but finding, however affecting the picture...took a single captive; and, having first shut him up iu his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 440 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting...and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted away... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 446 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting...and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then look'd through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted away... | |
| Henry Major - 1873 - 136 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me, — 1 took a single captive,... | |
| Henry Major - 1875 - 272 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting the picture •was, that I could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me, — I took a single captive,... | |
| John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1876 - 568 页
...the miseries of confinement. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting...captive; and having first shut him up in his dungeon, 1 then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. " I beheld his body half... | |
| 1878 - 446 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellowcreatures born to no inheritance but slavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it nearer me, and that the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract me— —I took a single captive,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 页
...imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures bom to no inheritance buf slavery : but finding, however affecting the picture...distract me, — I took a single captive ; and, having fint shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to tab his picture.... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 页
...full scope to my imagination. I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting...was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitudes of sad groups in it did but distract me — I took a single captive, and having first shut... | |
| 1886 - 328 页
...quote the passage entire : ' ' I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but slavery ; but finding, however affecting...the multitude of sad groups in it did but distract mo — I took a single captive, and having first 229 slim him up in his dungeon, I looked through the... | |
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